John Lewis has a good selection of styles in basic colours, as well as red, smart sagey greens, all shades of brown and even a wacky violet.

The man is described as being of smart appearance, 5ft 11 in, of slim to medium build, with short, brown hair brushed forward.

So, slowly but surely, the Metrobus blue-and-yellow is dying out, and that horrible green Arriva thing will be replaced by a smart red.

But the burglars have often been described as in their late teens or early 20s, of smart appearance and well spoken with a local accent.

Spit and polish did more than produce a smart appearance: it helped inculcate a corporate spirit.

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(neighborhood/hotel)elegante

(hotel/neighborhood)fino

You can have lots of ugly old photo frames, with masses of pics of yourself in smart places or with famous people.

I have been to a very smart place called Century on Shaftesbury Ave.

Ayrshire - the birthplace of our national bard and producer of possibly the best bacon in Scotland - is coming into its own as a startlingly smart place to live.

Born in 1913 into a family of means and international connections, Helms grew up in smart suburbs of Philadelphia and New York.

The man now regarded as one of the prime suspects in the alleged air terror plot moved into a smart area of Bahawalpur, in southern Punjab, just three months ago.

Dates with the girls took place in smart locations like Mediterranean resorts and even on a luxury yacht off the Côte D' Azur.

Only a mile east of Glasgow's smart city centre streets, this - the third most deprived council ward in Scotland - might as well be on a different planet.

Residents living in a smart area of Salisbury are preparing to do battle a second time to save two large detached family homes which are under threat of demolition.

Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.

The style of the gate should match the house: a wicket gate would look out of place in a smart city setting, whereas antique wrought iron might lead to expectations that a cottage garden fails to meet.

Interior of a smart City office, with an elderly businessman sitting at a large oak desk.

The daughters of an insurance investigator, they lived in a smart area close to the cathedral.

Our weekend cottage is situated in a quiet but rather smart village in the Derbyshire Peak District, somewhere between Ashbourne, Bakewell and Buxton.

In 1982, he was a long way from Angola and his bush fighters, in a smart suburb of Rabat in Morocco.

When built at the turn of the last century this was in a smart district of the city, but decay has set in.

The menu is Scottish with French influences, while the decor and atmosphere are smart without being stuffy.

This is a very nice and smart area of central Tokyo, rather like Knightsbridge: a wide leafy boulevard with lots of side streets and fashionable places to shop.

Shocked residents have told of the mayhem brought to their smart suburb after a man was found shot dead.

The family moved to their present home in a smart district on the edge of the town about two-and-a-half years ago.

After about half an hour tailing my taxi, we arrive in a smart area on the outskirts of Rhodes town itself, where modern hotels stand shoulder-to-shoulder facing a small but pleasant beach.

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Her eyes actually smarted with pain as she looked at it and Jade realized she had not felt the sun on her back for at least three days.

A nervous-looking soldier had given her the wound, and she smarted at the pain it was causing her.

Tamara, still smarting with pain, just cried as Penelope walked out of the house in jealous rage and did not return.

My tootsies are smarting like you wouldn't believe.

Though the hot wax smarted, it didn't hurt as bad as Randy would have thought.

He rubbed his elbow, which smarted from breaking his fall.

Okay, maybe this doesn't qualify as a safety hazard, but darnit it smarts when it gets into your eyes.

My eyes are more than prickling now, they're smarting, and tears are rolling down my cheeks.

The light scent didn't smart or sting and was, as he put it ‘redolent of old money!’

My knees ached from sitting and my eyes smarted from staring at the screen.

Wexford come to the field still smarting from the deep scratches inflicted by the Cats.

While still smarting from the body blows, Mnisi appeared to be cautious while Dintsi suddenly burst into action with his jab and controlling the round.

At any rate, here you are, sitting in your room, wounds smarting from the rejection.

Makes the skin of your face tingle and smart like it's been slapped.

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(be distressed)

to smart from sth—resentirse de algo

they're still smarting from their defeat in the elections—todavía se resienten de su derrota electoral

to smart under sth

she smarted under his cruel irony—su ironía hiriente la hacía sufrir

In 1996, Kentucky was smarting from the sting of its regional final collapse against North Carolina the previous season.

For the Democrats, still smarting from the self-inflicted wounds of Al Gore?

Chen's removal, under such circumstances, would amount to a kind of legalized coup by the Kuomintang, which is still smarting from its historic loss of the presidency in the March election.

When she's being patient and honest, you want to cheer; when she says she's been hurt, it smarts.

He is still clearly smarting from the wounds from this film.

I was smarting from the realisation that nothing was every going to happen between me and my friend, and I couldn't focus enough to be involved with someone else, even someone as kind as the waiter.

Clarets chief Cotterill was smarting after seeing referee Colin Webster ignore his side's appeals for two late spot kicks after Ian Moore had already missed a late penalty.

Ireland are certain to be given a robust challenge by a team still smarting from the disappointment of conceding three goals to Netherlands in the last seven minutes of their tie on Saturday.

Shelbourne were still smarting from a penalty decision that went against them within fifteen seconds of the start of the second half and trailed 1-2 at the time.

And he expressed no fear about going up against a Democratic opposition, still smarting from election losses and gearing up to fight him every step of the way.

Reed is still smarting with his side's defence after they conceded four goals in the first 20 minutes of their 5-1 FA Cup first round defeat at Farnborough.

It was salt in the wounds of a Fianna Fáil party smarting from a grass roots rebellion in the European and local elections.

Residents in Croydon, still smarting from a 27 per cent increase in this year's council tax, say an extra £20 a year until the 2012 games takes the biscuit.

When he went to register the theft, four other tourists were already in line ahead of him, smarting over similar humiliation.

This was on top of the fact that at that time he was smarting from various other frustrations with Singapore and perhaps some of the other ASEAN members.

Still smarting from the terrible interruption to their plans by those cunning security measures in airports - what wily geniuses the enemy are to have thought of making the check-in staff ask such questions!

Even the action groups, who are still smarting from failing to win a single board seat and Treves's dogged refusal to co-opt any of them on to the board, wholeheartedly support his chairmanship.

The Audit Commission has extended an olive branch to the Council chiefs who are still smarting after the authority was branded ‘weak.’

Campaigners still smarting from ‘the bruises’ of wrangles with education officials four years ago advised parents of children who have been declined places from their primary school.

Second-rower Nathan Sharpe, smarting from the Wellington defeat when he was captain, had a stormer but, worryingly, finished the game with a shoulder injury.